![]() The Benini Studio and Sculpture Ranch, Johnson City, Texas Benini's painting career started with a one-man show in Milan, Italy in 1961. To date he has had 160 solo exhibitions in museums, universities and public institutions. Although painting is his chosen medium, he creates assembled sculptures - his “divertimenti” smaller, indoor pieces and occasionally, a large scale outdoor piece. In 1999, Benini and his wife Lorraine purchased 145 acres in the Texas Hill Country that have been turned Into the Benini Galleries & Sculpture Ranch which includes the residence, guesthouse and a 14000 sq. ft. Studios Building with offices, showroom, studios and fine arts library. In the surrounding hilly, Mediterranean-like landscape, national and international sculptors are placing large-scale contemporary works. For more information about Benini and to view other artwork, visit: www.Benini.com The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. - Jensen Ackles Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. - Robin Wright When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum 'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay see also Art, Bull & Scenery Sections Fat Monkey Sculpture Hye Spirits Strange Sculptures Texas Office Chair Vase Security |
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